During the rainy season, mosquitos usually increase in numbers and schools are overwhelmed with mosquitoes. Therefore, a team developed an automatic sprayer, which emits chemicals to kill mosquitos.
The sprayers will be placed in classrooms, toilets and anywhere needed to spray the relevant chemicals, steered by a timer. Once the tank of chemical is empty, an alarm will sound, so that it can be re-filled.
In the future, an app shall connect the sprayer also to smartphones.
Watering flowers and plants is a time-consuming – and repetitive task. So the idea was born to help the gardener by taking the daily manual work off his hands, developing an automated plant watering device.
The central processor consists of a Micro:bit and an additional card connected to sensors for humidity, temperature, light and rain. The second processor – also a Micro:bit – is connected to the pump that controls the whole system.
The first processor measures the humidity in the soil, the temperature, the light and the rain and transmits the signal to the Lora card to automatically turn the pump on and off. When the pump is running, it sends the signal to the other processor to control the watering of the plants in the specified order and duration.
We did it! We have successfully prevailed against the other 4 finalists and won the Bett Asia 21st Century Learning Award for our Digital Literacy Initiative. This is a big success for us and our Code Club kids, as the award goes to the organisation that is using #EdTech effectively to develop the necessary skills to help students become independent and confident global citizens.
The award is a recognition for all 1,000,345+ Code Club kids who have received their DLI certificate and for those 230,000+ students currently attending the DLI training program (50% being girls).
Bett Asia is the region’s leading education technology conference and expo, gathering senior education leaders, educators and innovators to share intelligence on how to improve learning in the 21st century.
Our local Bhutanese partner, VTOB foundation, organised the first ToT training for 16 teachers from 8 local schools earlier this month. The participants attended a 7-day training course, focusing on ScratchJr and Python. This is the first time these teachers attended a workshop for coding and programming skills.
After the ToT workshop, the IT teachers will deliver training sessions to over 1’000 students at those schools, whereas TDF provides 90 laptops and the ToT training costs.
This pilot marks the start of our cooperation with VTOB in Bhutan, to enable young children in digital literacy.
digitalswitzerland is a Switzerland-wide, cross-sector initiative that aims to strengthen and consolidate Switzerland as a leading international location for digital innovation. Under the umbrella organization digitalswitzerland, over 240 association members and non-political foundation partners work together to realize this goal.
In its 2022 edition, held at the Dolder Grand Hotel in Zurich, Thomas talked about The Dariu Foundation and its work, in front of international business leaders, academics and digital thought leaders, who met to exchange ideas on the digital future. Watch his full speech here.
The Dariu Foundation is launching its new project in Malaysia, in cooperation with The Rolf Schnyder Foundation, the Sarawak Ministry of Women and the Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak. The Memorandum of Understanding has been signed on Friday, August 28, 2022 and aims at providing digital literacy classes.
Sarawak Premier Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Abang Johari Tun Openg witnessed the MoU singing ceremony, where the Ministry of Women, Early Childhood and Community Wellbeing Development pointed out, that it is committed to ensure that all children in Sarawak are equipped with digital literacy so that they are not left behind in the digitalisation era, said its minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah.
She said, this programme aims to provide computer literacy and coding training and classes for teachers and children to develop vital computational thinking and reasoning skills that are essential for a technology reliant future. She added that this theme is chosen to emphasise the importance of having the relevant skills among Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) teachers to be able to adapt and cope with the ever changing educational and socio-economic environments.
Background: People with disabilities can find it hard to use/control smart devices. Therefore, we chose this topic to help these people to access smart devices more easily.
How the system works: The program is coded in Python, with face recognition When a user moves their face up-down-left-right… the mouse arrow will move accordingly. Eye blinks are equal to left/right click, closing both eyes means the mouse will glide up/down depending on the nose movement.
A group of five students from Cong Nghiep High School in Hoa Binh will be attending the 11th World Invention Creativity Olympics (WICO) in Seoul from August 4-6, 2022, where they are invited to exhibit their project at the event.
The group created a project – funded by The Dariu Foundation via Code Club – which they call “HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM FOR THE ELDERLY”.
It is more and more common that elderly people are left alone at home, without their children taking care of them as they live far away. One of the common problems that occur, is that they forget to take their medicine. Therefore, a small team of Code Club members developed a project to assist with the care of the elderly.
The system has two functions: measure such indicators as room temperature, humidity, light level etc. These indicators will be online, so that family members can see and control them remotely. The system also includes a medication box that triggers a signal at set times to remind people to take their medications. If they do not take them, the system sends notifications to family members so they can intervene.
The detector, installed in cameras in the field, can help to detect diseases of rice by taking images on a regular basis. These pictures will be uploaded onto the cloud services for analysis (using Scratch AI). The taken pictures will be sent to ThinkSpeak to synchronize with the stored data to generate the analysis results.
Once the diseases are detected, the system will provide advice on what chemical shall be used to cure the diseases.
Up to now, the system was able to analyse six samples. Through time, we will be able to add and analyse more and different diseases, not only for rice, but other produce too.
On March 15, The Dariu Foundation and Intel Products Vietnam organized the ceremony for the handover of 150 laptops to 5 schools in Tien Giang and Hau Giang provinces. These laptops are donated by Intel Products Vietnam on the occasion of its 15th anniversary of Intel in Vietnam. Over the past years, TDF has provided around 1,500 laptops to nearly 50 schools in Tien Giang and Hau Giang provinces, creating access for over 200,000 students in these provinces to computer and code literacy education.
“We highly appreciate the Digital Literacy Initiative of The Dariu Foundation, which enabled hundreds of thousands of children, especially in the rural and mountainous areas, to having access to digital literacy education over the past years. We are delighted by the fact that the program also focus on girls in STEM. What TDF is doing is exactly what Intel is intended to do in its RISE 2030 strategy – empowering young people through access to technology in Vietnam,” said Mr. Giang Hoang, Government Affairs Manager of Intel Products Vietnam.
Intel has continuously supported and donated to The Dariu Foundation since 2012 in several projects, mostly in the Digital Literacy Initiative.
